[HECnet] OpenVMS Backup

[h vlems]

Sorry Brian.  

Van: Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-
Verzonden: woensdag 22 mei 2013 16:40 PM
Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] OpenVMS Backup


Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> writes:

>On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-
><system at tmesis.com> wrote:
>> h vlems <hvlems at zonnet.nl> writes:
>>
>> {HTML elided}
>>
>> Could you not post HTML???
>>
>> --
>> VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
>>
>> Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
>
>Hello!
>(And I perhaps understand the ways of machines with the wisdom of one
>of my favorite characters.)
>I can't speak for why the VMS system is behaving strangely concerning
>the backup functions of its CDs, but I can for how one of us is

BACKUP is not behaving strangely at all. Its purpose was for doing BACKUP
and RESTORE. If you do NOT place (restore) files on the volume into their
original configuration, it is/was considered a new file and thus, receives
new file creation and modification dates and times. I was elaborating on
this very aspect of the file system in the OpenVMS File Systems Internals
V2 book when HP nixed it.



>posting. Some of us use our portable devices for participation on
>these lists. They in turn have default setting which can not be
>changed. That setting sadly is HTML. (Or something close enough.)

I read most of my email, assuming it's text, on VMS. If the email has a
MIME encoding or attachment, I read it on my Linux or OS X boxes. It's
not that I can't read it, it's just annoying to see that much "crap" for
a simple one line response. Hans's emails are so gobbledegook that it's
difficult to read through the HTML tags to see if it's worth the effort
to preview it on the Linux or OS X system.

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Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.